Hunger touches every community, every state, and every nation. Find a food bank in your part of the world.

What is Food Banking?

Food Banks

Sourcing Food Aid Locally

Throughout much of the world, there is enough food. But each year, millions of tons of consumable surplus food and grocery products are lost. Much of what is grown, processed, and manufactured is never consumed due to:

Failure to harvest

Post-harvest loss

Product disposal

Expiration

Over production

Damage

Marketing and other business decisions

Food banking is the link between food waste and hunger.

Food banking is an interconnected lifeline to the hungry.

Food banking is hunger relief operating at scale.

Food banking is a community asset.

Learn more about how food banking works, where the food comes from, how it moves through a food bank, the community agencies food banks serve, and how food reaches hungry people.